Improvement in picture-rod moldings



E. F. NYE. Picture- Rod Molding.

NQ. 204,754. Patented June 11, 1878.

".PErERS. FHOTO-UTMOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON n C UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

HIRAM F. NYE, OF WEST DENNIS, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN PICTURE-ROD MOLDINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 204,754, dated June 11,1878; application led May l0, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HIRAM F. NYE, of West Dennis, of the county ofBarnstable and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Picture-Rod Moldings; and do hereby declare the same tobe described in the following specification and represented in theaccompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a front elevation, and Fig.2 a vertical an d transverse section, of a molding made in accordancewith my invention.

This molding has two hook-supportingbeads, and a fillet and two groovesarranged between such beads. The fillet not only serves as a bearing forthe lower part of the upper hook, but as a means of preventingaccidental displacement of the lower hook while a picture supported byit may be in the act of being raised.

The duplex molding described is to enable one picture to be hung overanother and supported by a hook separate or distinct from that used insustaining the lower. picture, it being frequently very inconvenient, ifnot impossible, to hang the two pictures from a single hook.

Furthermore, in raising a picture when suspended by its sustaining-cord,resting at its middle in an S-shaped hook, as used in hanging picturesfrom a molding fixed to the wall of a room at the base of its cornice ornear the ceiling, the hook is liable to become detached from themolding, as the cord, being stifparticularly when having wire in it, andusually jammed in the hook, will occasionally force the hook up ofi' themolding, and thus leave the picture unsupported, except by the hands ofthe person having hold of it. The fillet of my molding, by projectingover the upper part of the hook, prevents it from being forced oft' thelower bead under circumstances as mentioned.

In Fig. 2 the two hooks are represented at S S' by dotted lines, a and bbeing the two beads, c the lillet, and d c the grooves. The nails forfastening the molding to a wall are to be driven through the grooves,their heads being hidden from view by the illet and the lower bead.

I make no claim to a picture-rod molding constructed as shown in eitherof the United States Patents Nos. 159,027, 194,952, as there areimportant differences between them and my molding, which embraces twobeads, a fillet, and grooves, arranged as represented, all of whichaccomplish eifects not incident to either of said moldings.

I claim- As a new manufacture, a picture-rod molding provided with twobeads, a b, an intervening fillet, c, and grooves d e, arranged as setforth.

HIRAM F. NYE. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, JOHN R. SNOW.

